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Snow leopards can’t roar. ONLY FEMALE BEES STING. A beefalo is part bison and part cow. If you lived for 2.4 billion seconds, you will be 75 years old. You can see colorful autumn leaves from space. If you continued to GROW as fast as an average baby, you’d weigh about 413,300 pounds by age 10. A zeptosecond is one-billionth of a trillionth of a second. Most spiders have 8 eyes. Some 20,000 YEARS AGO, massive icebergs floated off the coast of Florida. The world’s most expensive TEA BAG was decorated with 280 diamonds and cost around $10,000! CHECK OUT THE BOOK AND APP!…
SUPER-STRONG FINGERS How long can you do a handstand? How about a finger-stand? Wang Weibao of China holds the record for the longest time to balance on four fingers (that’s two fingers on each hand), at 19.23 seconds. But Wang isn’t always upside down on his fingers. Sometimes he uses his digits to push himself off the ground from a straight-legged sitting position—with a watermelon in his lap. Hey, we’d be impressed even without the fruit. —Sally King LARGE AND IN CHARGE Cassius behaves the way you’d expect the largest crocodile in captivity to behave. The 18-foot saltwater croc’s diet includes two or three whole chickens a week, plus he lunges at his keepers at Australia’s Marineland Melanesia Zoo. But Cassius also has a soft side. He once “adopted” a…
1 The Queen of England has a crown studded with more than 3,000 precious gems. 2 Most pirates never buried their loot. 3 A gold nugget found in California weighed a whopping 160 pounds—about as much as 12 bowling balls. 4 Legend says that if you lose a tooth in Mexico, el ratón (the mouse) will leave a treasure under your pillow. 5 A 14-pound pearl was found inside a giant clam. 6 A cornflake shaped like the state of Illinois sold for $1,350. CHECK OUT THE BOOK!…
1 ON POINT A skilled sculptor carved these awesome Darth Vaders out of pencil points. The artist creates these and other cool copies by holding the pencil in one hand and a craft knife in the other. 2 THE BIG CHEESE Say cheese! Cheddar, to be exact. A sculptor carved the likeness of the U.S. Capitol building out of a giant 400-pound block of the cheese—enough to make 50,000 sandwiches. 3 “CAN”-TASTIC Talk about driving art to another level. This cool car was a sculpture built out of canned food as part of an exhibition to raise awareness of hunger issues and collect donations for food banks. 4 BRIDGE TWINS Think this is a pic of London’s Tower Bridge? Think again. It’s actually a smaller-scale reproduction of the iconic landmark,…
Sea Turtles Work Out Boca Raton, Florida These baby sea turtles aren’t hitting the treadmill for exercise—they’re walking for science! In the wild, newly hatched sea turtles crawl from their beach nests to the flat, shiny horizon of the ocean. But bright lights from nearby cities can confuse the hatchlings, causing them to wander for hours. Biologists Karen Pankaew and Sarah Milton wanted to know if these long crawls tire the little reptiles. So they placed wild loggerhead and green sea turtle hatchlings on a tiny, custom-built treadmill. Then the scientists shone a light on the turtles to get them to crawl—though a few of the hatchlings refused. “One turtle turned away from the light and closed its eyes, like,‘I’m taking a nap!’” Pankaew says. Next the turtles swam in…
Want to know a secret? You’ve come to the right place! Welcome to the Super Sneaky Issue, crammed with top-secret activities to inspire your undercover instincts. Communicate in code, track hidden animals, discover real-life secret agents, and more. It’s all related to the new book Explorer Academy: The Nebula Secret, in which 12-year-old Cruz Coronado attends a school to become a world-class explorerunless dangerous people stop him. But first: Several real-life Nat Geo explorers inspired the information in this issue, as well as the book. Take our quiz to see which type of explorerand Explorer Academy characteryou’re most like. Just be careful who sneaks a peek at your results. This issue is for your eyes only! YOUR RESULTS YOU COULD BE AN ARCHAEOLOGIST! Your curiosity about everything means you’d probably…
